Wrap-Around Care Assistant

Job details

Job role: - Other support roles

Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern: Part time

Contract type: Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary: £24,836.00 - £25,823.00 Annually (FTE)

This job is term time only (38 weeks a year) for 14.5 hours a week before and after school. The hourly rate is £12.87 to £13.38 Mon- Thu 3pm - 6pm, Fri 3pm to 4.30pm, Wed 7.50am to 8.50am

Wrap-Around Care Assistant job summary

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Wrap Around Care Assistant to join our team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality care and supervision to our children during before and after-school hours ensuring a positive start and end of their school day . Duties will include organising and delivering engaging activities, ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, preparing and serving healthy snacks and light meals.

JOB DESCRIPTION

WRAP AROUND CARE ASSISTANT

GLT Support Staff 1B-2

Accountable to: Wrap Around Care Lead

Purpose of Job:

• To provide support and care for the children who attend wrap around care at Great Missenden C of E Primary School; ensuring children have a positive start and finish to their day at school.
• To be part of a team providing a safe and stimulating environment for the children with appropriate play opportunities, planned activities and healthy food.

Duties and Responsibilities

To assist the Club Lead as appropriate to ensure the smooth and reliable operation of the club including:

• Ensuring the safe arrival of children and delivery to carers at the beginning and end of the club sessions.
• Ensuring the arrival and departure of children is recorded and monitored on the registers including School Gateway/Arbor as appropriate and in line with our wider school arrival and end of day processes.
• Setting up the room for daily activities and aiding with the care and cleanliness of the room and equipment, tidying the room at the end of the day.
• Helping plan and deliver safe, creative, appropriate activities in a fun and caring environment.
• Preparing and serving snacks and food for the children ensuring that hygiene, health and safety measures are met.
• Promote healthy eating and lifestyle.
• Positive management of children’s behaviour and to act in a responsible manner and role model at all times
• Keeping children safe and minimising risks in the wrap around care environment
• Administering and recording first aid as appropriate.
• Be aware and apply the school’s policies and procedures.
• Participating in appropriate school-based meetings and training activities within contracted hours.

Whilst every effort has been taken to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. Therefore, there is an expectation that the post holder will carry out any other reasonable duties or requests in keeping with this post or as may be determined from time to time by the Headteacher. The Post holder will contribute to the school’s objectives in service delivery by:

• Supporting the school by adhering closely to policies and procedures and being a good role model of the school’s vision and values
• Being professional at all times
• Adhering to the school’s safeguarding procedures and attending relevant child protection training when required
• Enactment of Health and Safety requirements and initiatives as directed
• Ensuring compliance with GDPR legislation
• At all times operating within the school’s Equal Opportunities framework

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION

WRAP AROUND CARE ASSISTANT

Essential

Desirable

Skills, Aptitude, knowledge and experience

• Experience of working with children in a play, childcare or out of school setting
• Excellent communication skills with children, parents/carers and colleagues
• Good organisational, record keeping and planning skills
• A positive approach to inclusive practice with children and colleagues
• Professionally discrete and able to respect confidentiality at all times
• Commitment to the school values & ethos
• Experience of preparing and serving healthy food in a child-based setting
• Experience of planning and delivering creative, enjoyable and age -appropriate activities for children in the age range 3 to 11years.

Personal Qualities

• Positivity and enthusiasm with a genuine passion for working with children.
• Patience, kindness and approachable manner
• Reliability and trustworthiness
• Adaptability
• Ability to act on own initiative

Qualifications

• A positive approach to completing relevant short courses and qualifications
• An understanding of the importance of Health and Safety and Food Hygiene in the workplace
• An understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection
• An understanding of paediatric first aid
• Completion of a recognised Childcare qualification
• Completion of a Safeguarding Awareness Course
• Completion of a Health and Safety course
• Completion of a Food Hygiene course
• Completions of a Paediatric First Aid Course

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):

childcare disqualification

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

medical

online and social media

prohibition from teaching

right to work

satisfactory references

suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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